Virtual Book Display

2022 ASAO Virtual Book Display

Welcome to ASAO's virtual book display, which is presented as part of this year's annual meeting!

Below you will find a selection of journal and book titles broadly related to anthropology and/or Oceania. Clicking on each journal or book cover will take you to the publisher's site, where you can learn more about and/or purchase the item.

Please browse and enjoy! Or, click on a link below to be taken directly to a particular section of the display:

- Featured Book Talks
- Featured Presses
- Featured Journals

FEATURED BOOK TALKS

All book talks will be hosted via Zoom. Links are located below.

THURSDAY,
JANUARY 27

Holger DroesSLer,
12:45-1:15 PM

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SoPHIE CHAO,
1:15-1:45 PM

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Holger Droessler

Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa (2022)

Harvard University Press

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Sophie Chao

In the Shadow of the Palms: More than Human - Becomings in West Papua (2022)

Duke University Press

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SaturDAY, January 29

TEVITA KA‘ILI,
12:40-1:30 PM

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Tevita Ka'ili will launch a new Special Issue of Pacific Studies (Oct 2021, Vol 44. No. 1 &2): ʻAtamai-Loto, moe Fakaʻofoʻofa-ʻAonga: Tongan Tā-Vā Philosophy of Mind-Heart and Beauty-Utility

featured Presses

Australia National University (ANU) PRESS

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Receive 20% off hardcopy Pacific or Anthropology books from ANU Press using the code ASAO2022. Valid until 13 February.

See more details on the ANU Press flyer.

Austronesian Paths and Journeys, Edited by James J. Fox (2021)

Framing the Islands
Power and Diplomatic Agency in Pacific Regionalism, by Greg Fry (2019)

Like Fire
The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia, by Theodore Schwartz, Michael French Smith (2021)

The Spice Islands in Prehistory
Archaeology in the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia, edited by Peter Bellwood (2019)

Understanding Oceania
Celebrating the University of the South Pacific and its collaboration with The Australian National University, edited by Stewart Firth, Vijay Naidu (2019)

BERGHAHN BOOKS

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Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters: New Lives of Old Imaginaries, edited by Jeannette Mageo and Bruce Knauft (2021)

Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu, by Tom Bratrud (2022)

In Memory of Times to Come: Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea, by
Melissa Demian (2021)

Carolina Academic Press

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Haunted Pacific:
Anthropologists Investigate Spectral Apparitions across Oceania, Edited by
Roger Ivar Lohmann (2019)

Making Law in Papua New Guinea
The Colonial Origins of a Postcolonial Legal System, by Bruce L. Ottley, David Weisbrot, Jean G. Zorn (2021)

Moro and the Weather Coast
A Revitalization Movement in the Solomon Islands,
by Gülbün Çoker O'Connor (January 2022)

Oceania: An Introduction to the Cultures and Identities of Pacific Islanders (2nd ed), by Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart, Laurence M. Carucci, Lin Poyer, Richard Feinberg, Cluny Macpherson (2017)

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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In the Shadow of the Palms: More than human - Becomings in West Papua, by Sophie Chao (2022)

Haero Pō

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You can also reach out to Haere Pō directly by clicking here.

An Account of the Marquesas Islands 1797-1799,
by William Pascoe Crook (2007)

Essai en vue d'un Dictionnaire et d'une Grammaire selon le dialecte en usage aux Marquises, 1799, by William P. Crook, Samuel Greatheed, Timautete (2020)

Les archipels: Iles de la Société, Marquises, Tuamotu, Gambier
Recherches sur les productions végétales, by Gilbert Cuzent (2021)

L'île-sirène, te fenua vehine paaoa, by Seegan Mabesoone (2021)

Fai: un mythe marquisien sans limites, by
Karl von den Steinen (2021)

Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press is offering Coconut Colonialism at a 20% discount, available by clicking here.

Coconut Colonialism
Workers and the Globalization of Samoa, by
Holger Droessler (2022)

University of Guam Press

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Lina'la': Portraits of Life at Litekyan, by the Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center (2018)

Mother Tree, by Olympia Terral (2020)

The Properties of Perpetual Light, by Julian Aguon (2021)

University of Hawai‘I PRESS

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Books and Edited Volumes

BOOKS: Receive a discount. Enter coupon code ASAO2022.

Ka Po‘e Mo‘o Akua: Hawaiian Reptilian Water Deities, by Marie Alohalani Brown (2022)

Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua, by Camellia Webb-Gannon (2021)

Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, by Jeff Evans (2022)

Sweat and Salt Water: Selected Works
by Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa, compiled and edited by Katerina Teaiwa, April K. Henderson, and Terence Wesley-Smith (2021)

Tanna Times: Islanders in the World, by Lamont Lindstrom (2021)

Also available via Open Access by clicking here.

UH Press Journals

Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific

Editors: Francis Allard, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Bérénice Bellina-Pryce, University of Paris-Nanterre
Julie S. Field, Ohio State University

The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs

Editor: Alexander Dale Mawyer, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i

Oceanic Linguistics

Editors: Daniel Kaufman, Queens College & Endangered Language Alliance
Yuko Otsuka, Sophia University
Antoinette Schapper, CNRS, Lacito